About us

Ilia Vekua Sukhumi Institute of
Physics and Technology (SIPT) was founded in 1945. The
Institute was formed on the ground of the core of the famous German
scientists (Nobel laureate Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Manfred Von
Ardenne, Max Steenbeck, Pieter Thiessen, Max Volmer, Nikolaus
Riehl, etc.).

Activities of institute included research technologies of creation
nuclear and thermonuclear and corpuscular-beam weapons, and also
scientist researches in fields including plasma physics, solid
state physics, untraditional energetic, physical electronics and
other.

In 2006, the Institute was granted the status of a legal entity of
public law (LEPL). Same year, scientific- technology direction was
created in the Institute, with appropriate scientific-structural
units, involvement in the international scientific
researches and projects was increased respectively.

The conception of the institute covers wide spectrum of science and
technology: